A car has 'deliberately' ploughed into a pizza restaurant near Paris killing one young girl and injuring 13 others - five seriously.

The driver is reported to have 'rammed' people eating outside the Pizzeria Cesena - said to be popular with families on a hot summer's evening - in La Fierté sous-Jouarre, killing a 13-year-old girl.

One of the seriously injured is reported to a three-year-old boy who is critical - possibly the younger brother of the teenager who died.

The 32-year-old man is reported to have also had weapons in his car when he 'drove up to the restaurant, waited outside and then driven at the restaurant at speed', according to witnesses who said there were about 20 people inside at the time.

Pictures from the pizzeria show chaotic scenes, with the grey BMW buried inside the front of the restaurant - and chairs and tables upturned and metal supports bent out of shape.

Anti-terror offices have swarmed the scene following the crash - but early indications are that while the driver intended to commit suicide, it was NOT a terror attack, according to local police.

Emergency services rushed to the scene in the town of Sept-Sorts after the car sent pedestrians running (Image: @alijeancorakci/Twitter)

The vehicle at the scene in the town near Paris (Image: @HoolaChoup/Twitter)

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A witness told BFMTV: “A car drove into the terrace and crashed into the bar. The driver tried to reverse but someone stopped them. The gendarmes arrived quickly. There were around 20 people in the restaurant.”

Enquiries at the scene suggested that that the motorist ‘had made no effort whatsoever to brake,’ said the source.

The horrific incident took place in the district of Sept-Sorts, which is around 40 miles east of the French capital and not far from Disneyland Paris.

Earlier reports claimed the girl who died was eight years old, but Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet has since confirmed she was aged 13.

The 32-year-old male driver of the BMW has been arrested, the BBC reports.